Date of the Buddha and RV

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

--- Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at UMICH.EDU> wrote:
> The date of the Buddha and the date of the RV are not directly related.
> While it is the dase that the Buddhist suttas like the Tevijja Sutta refer
> to Irubbeda (=RV) among other Vedas, the Suttas refer to the authors of
> the Vedic mantras (ye te mantaana.m kattaaro isayo) as ancient
> personalities (poraa.naa).  This simply indicates a relative choronology
> between the Vedic texts like the RV and the Buddhist tradition reflected
> the the Pali canon, and there is no easy way of linking the dates of the
> Buddha and the RV in such a way that if the date of the  Buddha fluctuates
> by a few hundred years, the date of the RV must correspondingly fluctuate
> by the same.  Each of these dates, apart from their obvious relative
> chronolgy, must be treated as independent values to be determined by
> unrelated independent evidence.

 Incidentally, Dr. Jan Houben talks on how Max Mueller dated the Vedas
using Buddha's date on 31 May 98.




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